List of 21st-century writers

This is a partial list of 21st-century writers. This list includes notable authors, poets, playwrights, philosophers, artists, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature. Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letters) is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word literature means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters"). The two most basic written literary categories include fiction and non fiction.

A
• Silvia Agüero

• Monica Ali

• James Altucher

• Núria Añó

• Nadeem Aslam

• Martin Amis

• Kurt Andersen

• K. A. Applegate

• Jeffrey Archer

• Diana Athill

• Paul Auster

• Wasi Ahmed

• Ashley Audrain

• Victoria Aveyard

B
• C. Morgan Babst

• Kevin Baker

• Nicholson Baker

• Iain Banks

• Russell Banks

• Julian Barnes

• Andrea Barrett

• Max Barry

• Sebastian Barry

• Christian Bauman

• Louis Bayard

• Peter Behrens

• Elizabeth Berg

• Wendell Berry

• Maeve Binchy

• Dustin Lance Black

• Roberto Bolaño

• Roberto Gómez Bolaños

• S. J. Bolton

• William Boyd

• T. C. Boyle

• John Boyne

• Paula Brackston

• Adam Braver

• Libba Bray

• Alan Brennert

• André Brink

• Max Brooks

• Dan Brown

• Don Brown

• Christopher Buckley

• Frederick Buechner

• John Burdett

• James Lee Burke

• Augusten Burroughs

• A. S. Byatt

C
• W. Bruce Cameron

• Jacqueline Carey

• Peter Carey

• Ron Carlson

• Stephen L. Carter

• Eleanor Catton

• Michael Chabon

• Diane Chamberlain

• Jung Chang

• Kate Christensen

• Dan Chaon

• Kelly Cherry

• Tracy Chevalier

• Noam Chomsky

• Tom Clancy

• Cassandra Clare

• Susanna Clarke

• Chris Cleave

• Ernest Cline

• Harlan Coben

• Paulo Coelho

• J. M. Coetzee

• Eoin Colfer

• Suzanne Collins

• Michael Connelly

• Pat Conroy

• Claire Cook

• Bernard Cornwell

• Douglas Coupland

• Michael Cox

• Jim Crace

• Michael Crichton

• Justin Cronin

• John Crowley

• Nigel Cumberland

• Clive Cussler

D
• Fred D'Aguiar

• Sandra Dallas

• Edwidge Danticat

• Kathryn Davis

• Richard Dawkins

• Jonathan Dee

• Frank Delaney

• Charles de Lint

• Tatiana de Rosnay

• Kiran Desai

• Pete Dexter

• Anita Diamant

• Junot Díaz

• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

• E. L. Doctorow

• Harry Dodge

• Ivan Doig

• Stephen R. Donaldson

• Sara Donati

• Jennifer Donnelly

• Emma Donoghue

• Keith Donohue

• Roddy Doyle

• Margaret Drabble

• Dinesh D'Souza

• John Dufresne

• Sarah Dunant

• Helen Dunmore

• Mark Dunn

• James Dashner

• Elisabetta Dami

E
• Jennifer Egan

• Dave Eggers

• Kristín Eiríksdóttir

• Tan Twan Eng

• Louise Erdrich

• Diana Evans

• Percival Everett

F
• J. G. Farrell

• Sebastian Faulks

• Jasper Fforde

• Joy Fielding

• Timothy Findley

• Becca Fitzpatrick

• Richard Flanagan

• Martin Fletcher

• Michael Flynn

• Jonathan Safran Foer

• Ken Follett

• Richard Ford

• Aminatta Forna

• Karen Joy Fowler

• Ariana Franklin

• Tom Franklin

• Michael Frayn

• Kate Furnivall

G
• Patricia Gaffney

• Neil Gaiman

• Nicole Galland

• Cristina García

• Jane Gardam

• Alex Garland

• Maggie Gee

• Lisa Genova

• Elizabeth George

• Elizabeth Gilbert

• Malcolm Gladwell

• Julia Glass

• Nora Gold

• Francisco Goldman

• Adam Gopnik

• Mary Gordon

• Al Gore

• Jennifer Greene

• John Green

• Lavinia Greenlaw

• Andrew Sean Greer

• Philippa Gregory

• John Grisham

• David Grossman

• Sara Gruen

• Kim Gruenenfelder

• Sandra Gulland

• Romesh Gunesekera

• Beth Gutcheon

I-J
• Greg Iles

• John Irving

• Kazuo Ishiguro

• Joshilyn Jackson

• Howard Jacobson

• Paulette Jiles

• Michael Johns

• Owen Jones

• Gabriel Josipovici

• Graham Joyce

K
• Lesley Kagen

• Michio Kaku

• Ken Kalfus

• Jeanne Kalogridis

• Joseph Kanon

• Jon Katz

• Susanna Kearsley

• Cathy Kelly

• James Kelman

• Thomas Keneally

• Haven Kimmel

• Lily King

• Stephen King

• Barbara Kingsolver

• Sophie Kinsella

• Natsuo Kirino

• Walter Kirn

• Katrina Kittle

• Dean Koontz

• Elizabeth Kostova

• Jon Krakauer

• William Kent Krueger

• Hanif Kureishi

• Ray Kurzweil

• Jeff Kinney

L
• Jhumpa Lahiri

• Wally Lamb

• Anne Lamott

• John Lanchester

• Stieg Larsson

• Mary Lawson

• Chang-rae Lee

• Don Lee

• Dennis Lehane

• Lawrence Lessig

• Jonathan Lethem

• Kathy Lette

• Steven Levitt

• Andrea Levy

• Alan Lightman

• Elinor Lipman

• Laura Lippman

• S. E. Lister

• Penelope Lively

• Margot Livesey

• Lois Lowry

• Dimitris Lyacos

M
• Sarah J. Maas

• Keith Maillard

• Amit Majmudar

• Thomas Mallon

• David Malouf

• Hilary Mantel

• Jo-Ann Mapson

• Hubert Marcoux

• Javier Marías

• Juliet Marillier

• Yann Martel

• Charles Martin

• George R. R. Martin

• Valerie Martin

• Steve Martini

• Peter Matthiessen

• Simon Mawer

• Tucker Max

• Peter May

• Joyce Maynard

• James McBride

• Colum McCann

• Cormac McCarthy

• Jill McCorkle

• Alice McDermott

• Ian McEwan

• Dennis McFarland

• Jon McGregor

• Mameve Medwed

• James Meek

• Pauline Melville

• Dinaw Mengestu

• Claire Messud

• Marissa Meyer

• Philipp Meyer

• Stephenie Meyer

• China Miéville

• Lydia Millet

• Mark Mills

• Susan Minot

• David Mitchell

• Deborah Moggach

• Nadifa Mohamed

• Mary Alice Monroe

• Michael Moorcock

• Michael Moore

• Robert Morgan

• Laura Moriarty

• Liane Moriarty

• Michael Morpurgo

• Toni Morrison

• Kate Morton

• Andrew Motion

• Jojo Moyes

• Bharati Mukherjee

• Alice Munro

• Haruki Murakami

N-O
• V. S. Naipaul

• Bhalchandra Nemade

• Antonya Nelson

• Audrey Niffenegger

• Howard Norman

• Craig Nova

• Sandra Novack

• Joyce Carol Oates

• Vanessa O'Brien

• Joseph O'Connor

• Tawni O'Dell

• Maggie O'Farrell

• Michael Ondaatje

• Mary Pope Osborne

• Julie Otsuka

• Helen Oyeyemi

• Ruth Ozeki

P-Q
• Chuck Palahniuk

• Charles Palliser

• Orhan Pamuk

• Christopher Paolini

• Ann Patchett

• James Patterson

• Laline Paull

• Nancy Pearl

• Iain Pears

• Louise Penny

• Stef Penney

• Tom Perrotta

• Jordan Peterson

• Per Petterson

• Arthur Phillips

• Jodi Picoult

• Padgett Powell

• Kevin Powers

• Richard Powers

• Terry Pratchett

• Philip Pullman

• Joe Queenan

• Anna Quindlen

R
• Ron Rash

• Yasmina Reza

• Anne Rice

• Christopher Rice

• Rick Riordan

• Francine Rivers

• Kim Stanley Robinson

• Marilynne Robinson

• Roxana Robinson

• Monique Roffey

• M. J. Rose

• Meg Rosoff

• Veronica Roth

• J. K. Rowling

• Norman Rush

• Salman Rushdie

• Mary Doria Russell

• Rachel Renée Russell

S
• Shan Sa

• Louis Sachar

• C. J. Sansom

• Brandon Sanderson

• Sam Savage

• John Sayles

• Cathleen Schine

• John Searles

• W. G. Sebald

• Alice Sebold

• Diane Setterfield

• Jeff Shaara

• Darren Shan

• Ben Sherwood

• Carol Shields

• Marci Shore

• Anita Shreve

• Daniel Silva

• Paullina Simons

• Karin Slaughter

• Ali Smith

• Seth Grahame-Smith

• Sarah Smith

• Wilbur Smith

• Zadie Smith

• Jane Stevenson

• Margo Taft Stever

• Harold Stewart

• James B. Stewart

• R. L. Stine

• Kathryn Stockett

• Sam Stone

• Jennifer Storm

T
• Amy Tan

• Donna Tartt

• Miriam Toews

• Colm Tóibín

• Zlatko Topčić

• Rose Tremain

• William Trevor

• Adriana Trigiani

• Scott Turow

• Anne Tyler

U-W
• Jane Urquhart

• Martin Vargic

• Daniel Wallace

• David Foster Wallace

• Natasha Walter

• Jo Walton

• Marina Warner

• Rick Warren

• Jennifer Weiner

• Lauren Weisberger

• Fay Weldon

• Alex Wheatle

• Jacqueline Wilson

• Jeanette Winterson

• Meg Wolitzer

X-Z

 * William P. Young
 * Carlos Ruiz Zafón